(Original Caption) Seneca Falls, NY: Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) is shown speaking during the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY, July 19th, 1848. Screened illusrtation. Suffrage association, 1869-1890.
(Original Caption) Seneca Falls, NY: Cartoon representing feminist speaker denouncing men at the first Women's Rights Convention, July 19-20, 1848, Seneca Falls, NY, where the American feminist movement was launched. Undated engraving. BPA2# 5480
circa 1850: Lucretia Mott nee Coffin (1793 - 1880), American social reformer, a founder of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society 1833, American Equal Rights Association 1866, called a women's rights convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Seneca Falls, NY 1848, active in the Underground Railroad from 1850. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
